yaw
See also: Yaw
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- enPR: yô, IPA(key): /jɔː/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː
- Homophones: yore, your, you're (some non-rhotic accents), y'all (with l-vocalization)
Etymology 1 edit
Unknown, first attested in the mid-16th century. Perhaps related to yar (“quick, agile”), or alternatively from Old Norse jaga (“to chase, drive, move back and forth”), from Middle Low German jagen (“to hunt, chase, pursue”), from Old Saxon *jagōn, from Proto-West Germanic *jagōn, from Proto-Germanic *jakkōną (“to hunt”).
Noun edit
yaw (plural yaws)
- The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane.
- The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile.
- (nautical) A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness.
- The extent of yawing; the rotation angle about the vertical axis.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane
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The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile
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A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness
The extent of yawing, the rotation angle about the vertical axis
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Verb edit
yaw (third-person singular simple present yaws, present participle yawing, simple past and past participle yawed)
- (intransitive, aviation) To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
- (intransitive, nautical) To swerve off course to port or starboard.
- (intransitive, nautical) To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.
- 1867, James Russell Lowell, Fireside Travels:
- Just as he would lay the ship's course, all yawing being out of the question.
- (intransitive) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
Translations edit
To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course
To swerve off course to port or starboard
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To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course
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Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
yaw (plural yaws)
- A single tumor in the disease called yaws.
- 1770, William Northcote, The Marine Practice of Physic and Surgery, page 408:
- Sometimes there remains one large Yaw, high and knobbed, red and moist; this is called the master Yaw; […]
See also edit
etymologically unrelated terms containing the word "yaw"
Anagrams edit
Kalasha edit
Conjunction edit
yaw
Synonyms edit
Matal edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Proto-Chadic *ymn. Cognate with Wandala yawe, Podoko yəwa, Moloko yàm, etc.
Noun edit
yaw
References edit
- Topics in Chadic linguistics 3, volume 3 (2007), page 56
Middle English edit
Pronoun edit
yaw
- Alternative form of yow
Pnar edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Khasian *jaw (“market”). Cognate with Khasi ïew (“market”), taïew (“week”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
yaw
Turkish edit
- (internet slang) Alternative spelling of yav.